Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While experts were still collecting the North Carolina wreckage, the head of the National Airlines branch of the pilots' union, Captain Robert J. Rohan, fired off a telegram to FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada suggesting a charge that made more responsible pilots' union members gasp. The FAA's recently instituted pilot check procedure, Rohan implied, may have caused both the crash of National's DC-6B and the crash of a National-operated DC-7B (with 42 dead) last November over the Gulf of Mexico. FAA's pilot-proficiency tests require pilots to go through "approaches...
...Branch Scheme Circulates...
...Several branch schemes have also appeared. One less expensive plan offers the would-be speculator similar letters with the substitution of five-dollar checks for the Savings Bonds...
...difficult to get hold of a big, politically rewarding issue. There is little the opposition party can do to change the fact that the voter-stirring issues of 1960 lie in such policy realms as foreign relations, defense and space, where initiative and control belong to the executive branch. Congress may criticize the President's policies and performances in those realms, may even vote more money than he asks, but it cannot take the issues away from...
...somehow find their way overseas. So, too, must students from Tanganyika, third major country comprising British East Africa (pop. 21 million), an area one-fifth as big as the fifty United States. Due soon: a full-fledged University of East Africa, combining Makerere, the Royal College and a new branch at Morogoro, Tanganyika. But the merger may take five years...